One can also turn the argument around. What would be the reason to use Windows instead of Linux (if, like most of the people on HN I assume, you are computer literate) ?
Games I guess.
- I have to disable the compositor to get 144 Hz in programs - With the compositor disabled, animations become very drawn out and pixelated - Konsole's layout breaks on a new version so I have to keep downgrading it manually - Audacity takes like 10 seconds to load - I have to run modprobe every time I want to use my webcam - The cursor is different in login screen and main desktop - Spectacle (screenshotting tool) needs to be invoked twice to actually do a screenshot - I can't print double sided pages on my network printer - Dolphin can't connect to our household's Windows file share server (or maybe the fault lies in samba?) - VLC hard freezes every once in a while and needs to be killed with -9 flag
At one point I maintained a txt of these issues but I don't have access to that right now
Personally, I have not had any issues in about fifteen years, but I cannot blame people for expecting their hardware to Just Work (tm). Back in the day, I enjoyed spending a weekend getting sound or wifi to work, but these days not so much.
At the same time, hardware support has gotten so much better over the twenty one years I have been using Linux, so it is much less of a hassle today.
Safe screen locking.
Not having to spend hours getting hardware working properly but unreliably.
Not having to deal with audio issues when you want sound from multiple apps.
A responsive interface that doesn't feel like a clunky children's toy from the early 2000s.
That's subjective.
>Safe screen locking.
Slock.
>Not having to spend hours getting hardware working properly but unreliably.
No issue with Void. Good luck with Windows and old harware. You don't have your wifi drivers on your laptop reinstall? You are fucked. Yes, SDI Tool Origin, but you need an extra USB drive about 16GB to do so.
>Not having to deal with audio issues when you want sound from multiple apps.
That's bullshit, I solved that in 2004.
>A responsive interface that doesn't feel like a clunky children's toy from the early 2000s.
You mean, Windows 10 with UI latency and everything being felt as if it was ran over a layer of tar? Because, in comparison, MATE flies. And I don't even use a DE.
Not the GP, but just because you solved it in 2004 doesn't mean others don't have issues. There are still hardware/app configurations that are broken on Linux. Pipewire is helping, but it's not perfect.